Dallas County, Texas - Bios: EDWARD HUGHE TENISON - Biography ************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Roger Bartlett http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** [From The Encyclopedia of Texas, compiled and edited by Ellis A. Davis and Edwin H. Grobe, published by Texas Development Bureau, Dallas, Texas, no date (ca. 1923), vol. 2, p. 578] EDWARD HUGHE TENISON had come, within the course of a brief but remarkably brilliant career, to take his place among the ranking men who direct the commercial affairs of his home city. The late Mr. Tenison was born in Dallas, November 2, 1895. His father, Edward O. Tenison, for more than forty years identified with the banking business of Texas, is a financier of national reputation. He was educated in the public and high schools of Dallas and in the Tome School of Port Deposit, Maryland. Having completed his education, he was for three years employed by the City National Bank in a clerical capacity. In 1916 when he resigned to take a place in his father's bank he was working in the transit department of the bank. After one year's work in the new place he was made assistant cashier of the Tenison National Bank, and January, 1920, became cashier of the bank. At the time of his death he was also treasurer of the Federal Investment Company. In 1915 Mr. Tenison was married to Miss Elizabeth Felder, daughter of W. D. Felder of Dallas. A daughter, Elizabeth Anne, and a son, Edward H., Jr., are the only children. One would search long before finding the record of a career which in so short a time had achieved such extraordinary success and had given such high promise of even greater attainments. Son of a worthy father, equipped with the best training that American schools could offer and showing at an early age a wonderful business instinct and foresight, he gave every evidence of following in the footsteps of his father and even of making advances over that notable career. Temperate in all his habits, courteous and manly in his bearing, generous in all his relations, his untimely death caught him from the very threshold of what appeared to be an extraordinarily promising career. In his death not only his relatives but also a host of friends suffered a deep personal bereavement and Dallas lost one of the noblest of her younger sons and one who gave rare promise of making an unusual contribution to her commercial and civic life.